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Spengler is historian, mathematician, esthete, economist, political scientist, philosopher. With a curious and powerful alternation of Teutonic intellectual despotism and entranced mysticism, he analyzes history by huge analogies. Civilizations he sees as emerging & disappearing in cycles, each one, like a flower, experiencing birth, growth, decay, death. Our own Western civilization...
Grandson Jim makes good telling of his drab childhood, his golden-haired mother, his whiskey-bibbling father. In Shanty Irish he attains not the strange lure of roving Beggars of Life (recently effectively distorted for the cinema; see TIME. Oct. 8), but projects instead that charming Gaelic shiftlessness which composes...
While M. Benda's analysis of political passions is admirable and his main thesis is brilliant, many thoughtful readers will not find themselves in agreement with his main philosophical tenets nor will they be inclined to applaud some of his own political prejudices. M. Benda is still searching for eternal...
Battling with these books' of pure Soviet origin are three others: 1) The Real Situation in Russia by Leon Trotsky,* presenting the exiled Jew Militarist's passionate case against Gentile Dictator Stalin; 2) Incredible Siberia* wherein a Chicago Daily News correspondent hears U.S. drummers' jokes told in...
* Research indicates that sauerkraut, despite its Teutonic name, originated not in Germany but in Asia. Tartars ate it first, introduced it to the Slavic peoples of eastern Europe, who fed it to their German friends, who brought it to the U. S., where it was first made commercially in St...